Tax Executives Institute
Tax Executives Institute is a nonprofit 501(c)(6) association that caters to in-house tax professionals internationally. Its members are business executives who are responsible for taxation matters on an administrative or policy-making level, or whose work is otherwise primarily concerned with the challenges of business taxation. TEI members are accountants, lawyers, and other corporate and business employees who are responsible for the tax affairs of their employers in an executive, administrative, or managerial capacity.
History
TEI was founded in 1944[1] by a group of 15 corporate tax executives in New York City. Today the institute has nearly 7,000 members, aligned in 56 separate chapters, and representing over 3,000 businesses in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Approximately 10 percent of the Institute's members are affiliated with Canadian corporations.
In 1999 TEI founded its first chapter in Europe; an Asian chapter was chartered in 2005, and a South American chapter was founded in 2014.